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  • Two SLFP members of Dodangoda Pradesiya Sabha join Pohottuwa
    Two Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Councilors Suranga Prasad Hidellarchchi and H. M. Padmasiri joined the Sri Lanka Podu Jana Peramuna (SLPJP) at the recently held monthly...
  • UC Chairman rejects request to increase funds
    United National Party (UNP) members of the Ambalantota Urban Council (UC) had requested the ruling party to increase the members’ fund from Rs.50,000 to Rs.100,000 during a...
  • PARLIAMENT
    UPFA has more MPs – DineshThe Speaker accepted that when the JVP and TNA members are taken out, the UPFA has more MPs in Parliament. Five MPs crossed over to the UPFA camp...
  • Western Provincial Council (WPC) Chief Minister and Finance, Planning and Local Government Minister Isuru Devapriya presents the Financial Statement for 2019 yesterday. Pictures by Gayan Pushpika
    WPC goes ahead with Budget sessions
    Western Provincial Council (WPC) Chief Minister and Finance, Planning and Local Government Minister Isuru Devapriya presented the Financial Statement for 2019 at the WPC...
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  • Parliamentarian Prasanna Ranatunge addressing the Minuwangoda SLPP Bala Mandalaya meeting at the Udugampola Reggie Ranatunge Memorial Hall.
    UNP fears General Elections: Ranatunge
    Gampaha District SLPP Leader and Joint Opposition Group convenor Parliamentarian Prasanna Ranatunge said he would challenge the UNP and the JVP to withdraw their petitions before the Supreme Court if...
  • WPC members browse social media during budget
    Members of the Western Provincial Council (WPC) were caught watching various videos and browsing through social media sites on their newly fixed screens at the recently built Council chambers as...
  • ‘JVP protecting Ranil Wickremesinghe’
    The JVP which set Parliament on fire by hurling bombs in the august assembly has created a bigger conflagration in the country by setting up political parties against each other, Government Co-...
  • ‘NCM against Ranil taken up after two weeks’
    The no confidence motion against former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was handed over on March 21 and it was taken up for the debate on April 4, which is two weeks after the date of handing...
  • Speaker must be held responsible - Rambukwella
    Parliament was chaotic because the Speaker did not follow the stipulated procedure to present a No Confidence Motion, Government Co-Media Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said.He was addressing the...
  • ‘Sajith should be UNP’s PM candidate’
    UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa should be nominated unanimously by the UNP Central Working Committee as the UNP candidate for Prime Minster at any forthcoming general election, if the party is to...
  • ‘Sajith must be UNP candidate for premiership at general election’
    The UNP Central Working Committee should nominate UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa unanimously as the UNP candidate for the Prime Minster at the general election if the UNP needs to win this time,...
  • NFF’s D.U. Senerath speaks at the inauguration of the Lakmawa Diyaniyo women’s organisation, affiliated to the National Freedom Front, in Yatinuwara. Picture by Asela Kuruluwansa.
    ‘UNP has no candidates for polls’
    The UNP feared to go for a general election not only due to its impending defeat, but also due to the crisis it faced in finding candidates to contest under its symbol, National Freedom Front (NFF)...
  • Speaker Karu Jayasuriya entering the Chamber with a posse of policemen from the MPs’ entrance for the session. Picture by Dushmantha Mayadunne
    PUBLIC, INTELLECTUALS CALL FOR GENERAL ELECTION
    The prevailing situation has resulted in the people calling for the holding of a General Election as the only solution to the present political impasse.A cross section of society including religious...
  • Disna Mudalige, Camelia Nathaniel and Amali Mallawaarachchi
    Parliament
    During No Confidence Motion: Sampanthan regrets non use of electronic voting systemLeader of the Opposition TNA Leader R. Sampanthan addressing the media in Parliament yesterday, said that it was...
  • Speaker informs President that motion against PM moved by JVP leader duly passed
    Speaker Karu Jayasuriya had informed President Maithripala Sirisena in writing yesterday, that the No-confidence motion against Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, moved by Chief Opposition Whip Anura...
  • House sits today
    Parliament will meet at 1.30 p.m. today as decided at the Parliamentary Party Leaders’ meeting.